Barack Obama Quotes
We ask our men and women in uniform to leave their families, our guardsmen and reservists to leave their jobs. We ask you to fight, to sacrifice, to risk your lives for your country. The last thing you should have to do is fight for a job when you come home.
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Once you make it to your point of making it, you'll appreciate the struggle.
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I firmly believe that with President Trump in the White House, we have such a great opportunity as conservatives.
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Democrats and Republicans have been very keen to make home ownership almost a national purpose.
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I grew up in a house full of books and parents who read, which led to me to reading from a very young age. And reading seemed to naturally progress to writing.
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We had to get serious and hit all aspects. We had to graduate. That's what you got to do: reach all people across the nation.
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One morning I woke up and was plunged into psychological shock. I had forgotten I was free.
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Black beans and soy beans are the cornerstones of longevity diets around the world.
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I was studying political science; I was adamant that I was going to follow in my father's footsteps.
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Maybe the one I enjoyed playing most was A Month in the Country.
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I started classes and it wasn't because I was like, 'I want to be an actor!' - I was really interested in the theory of what acting can be and what it's about. It's all about living in the moment and kind of being present, which is something that at that time in my life I really wanted to explore.
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On 'Grey's Anatomy' I wouldn't care what I was playing - I would play a corpse, 'cause I love it that much. It is deep true love, and it will never die.
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I can't inhabit my characters until I know what kind of work they do. This requires research because my jobs for the last decade have been author and professor, and I'd like to spare the world more author or professor novels.
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I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy.
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The slow philosophy is not about doing everything in tortoise mode. It's less about the speed and more about investing the right amount of time and attention in the problem so you solve it.
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In order to do a musical now, a style must be developed that works for today's audience.
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If people think I look good, it's the make-up.
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You say something, things you would rather forget, and then they are out there. It makes me anxious and I don't know why people are interested in me anyway. If I had my way, I would rather exist in a little hole and not speak to anyone.
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A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, 'Huh. It works. It makes sense.'
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Be mobile at all times, even if it causes you suffering or feelings of loneliness. Unless you're willing to do that, you're never going to get the bigger rewards.
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Characters develop as the book progresses, but any that start to bore me end up in the wastepaper basket. In real life, we may have to put up with tedious people, but not in novels.
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I recently learn a new word: insatiable. That's me.
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Hope looks toward the future. Trust looks to the present. Hope expects. Trust possesses...what prayer needs, at all times, is abiding and abundant trust.
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That the Creator himself comes to us and becomes our ransom - this is the reason for our rejoicing.
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We ask our men and women in uniform to leave their families, our guardsmen and reservists to leave their jobs. We ask you to fight, to sacrifice, to risk your lives for your country. The last thing you should have to do is fight for a job when you come home.
